Who Was Alive

Paul McCartney

English musician and member of the Beatles

Born 18 June 1942 · living, 84 as of September 2026

Who was alive at the same time as Paul McCartney?

  1. Mahatma Gandhi
  2. Winston Churchill
  3. Joseph Stalin
  4. Albert Einstein
  5. Pablo Picasso
  6. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
  7. Charlie Chaplin
  8. Adolf Hitler
  9. Salvador Dalí
  10. Ronald Reagan
  11. John F. Kennedy
  12. Nelson Mandela
  13. Elizabeth II
  14. Marilyn Monroe
  15. Martin Luther King Jr.
  16. Paul McCartney
  17. Joe Biden
  18. Donald Trump
  19. George W. Bush
  20. Vladimir Putin
  21. Bill Gates
  22. Michael Jackson
  23. Barack Obama
  24. Jimmy Wales
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When Paul McCartney was born, Adolf Hitler was 53, Albert Einstein was 63, Ronald Reagan was 31, Nelson Mandela was 23 and Mahatma Gandhi was 72.

Born during Paul McCartney’s lifetime: Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Michael Jackson, Vladimir Putin, George W. Bush, Joe Biden, Bill Gates and Jimmy Wales.

Not quite contemporaries: Thomas Edison died 11 years before Paul McCartney was born, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk died 4 years before Paul McCartney was born, Sigmund Freud died 3 years before Paul McCartney was born and Marie Curie died 8 years before Paul McCartney was born.

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  3. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  4. Michael Jackson 1958 – 2009
  5. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  6. Vladimir Putin born 1952
  7. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  8. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  9. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  10. George W. Bush born 1946
  11. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  12. Joe Biden born 1942
  13. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  14. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  15. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  16. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  17. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  18. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  19. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  20. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  21. Bill Gates born 1955
  22. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  23. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  24. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  25. Shakira born 1977
  26. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  27. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  28. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  29. Lionel Messi born 1987
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  39. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
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  74. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  75. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  76. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
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  87. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
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  96. J. K. Rowling born 1965
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  129. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  130. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  131. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
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  141. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
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